10+ Before-And-After Pics Show What Happens When You Stop Drinking

"Everything in moderation" is a pretty good rule to live by, especially where alcohol is concerned. Too much booze can cause high blood pressure (hypertension), which increases the risk of a heart attack or stroke. It can also cause you to gain a bunch of excess pounds thanks to all the extra calories in alcohol (there's roughly 200 calories in a pint of beer and about 230 calories in 100 grams of vodka).

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When a heavy drinker gives up alcohol however, the physical metamorphosis is staggering. Take a look at these before and after pictures to see what we mean. Some of the people in the photographs are barely recognisable when compared alongside their former selves, and while some of them complemented quitting with exercise, the pictures nevertheless serve as a powerful reminder of what can happen when you party too hard.

Of course if you're too drunk to exercise and care about what you're eating, this wouldn't have happened. Why can't you just be supportive of ALL the great changes that have happened for these people, as a result of their dropping their addiction? Do we need ask?

Well you are reducing your caloric intake by not drinking. It also prefaced it by saying one took up exercise too. Its a completely personal decision for some of us who don't able alcohol consumption the way others do. I get severely bloated when I drink, eat badly and don't want to do anything . So when I don't It's a transformation. Nothing against normal drinkers, I wish I could be one, I love alcohol and I'm a bartender.

I Was a drunk, I've seen a huge transformation once I stopped drinking. Thank you for sharing your thought....I hope you understand that alcohol was a very needy friend of mine, that took a tremendous amount of energy to get rid of. I imagine it was the same for the people in photo, don't discount what they achieved just because you haven't gone through it.

Guys, WHY on earth are you focusing on their weight??? It is so not about about that. It is about their health. look at their skin, eyes, their much healthier look. In all of these before and after pictures all I see are happier, healthier people, who have more life energy and look actually like they enjoy life. My dad is VERY skinny drunk... only one week of not drinking makes a HUGE difference. He gains weight, he looks much younger, his eyes radiate happiness, his mind is sharper. He simply looks human again. So get over your petty fat-non fat views, because weight is not the point here whatsoever.

Of course if you're too drunk to exercise and care about what you're eating, this wouldn't have happened. Why can't you just be supportive of ALL the great changes that have happened for these people, as a result of their dropping their addiction? Do we need ask?

Well you are reducing your caloric intake by not drinking. It also prefaced it by saying one took up exercise too. Its a completely personal decision for some of us who don't able alcohol consumption the way others do. I get severely bloated when I drink, eat badly and don't want to do anything . So when I don't It's a transformation. Nothing against normal drinkers, I wish I could be one, I love alcohol and I'm a bartender.

I Was a drunk, I've seen a huge transformation once I stopped drinking. Thank you for sharing your thought....I hope you understand that alcohol was a very needy friend of mine, that took a tremendous amount of energy to get rid of. I imagine it was the same for the people in photo, don't discount what they achieved just because you haven't gone through it.

Guys, WHY on earth are you focusing on their weight??? It is so not about about that. It is about their health. look at their skin, eyes, their much healthier look. In all of these before and after pictures all I see are happier, healthier people, who have more life energy and look actually like they enjoy life. My dad is VERY skinny drunk... only one week of not drinking makes a HUGE difference. He gains weight, he looks much younger, his eyes radiate happiness, his mind is sharper. He simply looks human again. So get over your petty fat-non fat views, because weight is not the point here whatsoever.